Several months ago the message shown below was posted to this
newsgroup but got no replies. I've experiencing the exact same thing
as the original poster and have the same question...can anyone answer
it?

Hi,

Can someone please explain to me about the "Creator Owner" Permission
(XP).

When you select, for example, "full control" for the "creator owner"
permission and apply it on a folder, as soon as you open the security
properties on the folder the "creator owner" permission checkboxes are
clear
again. So anyway I checked the "permissions" tab through the
"advanced"
button and I found out that the permissions were in fact "Full
control" but
when I looked at the "Effective permissions" for the "creator Owner"
there
were none applied.

My problem is that users have read and execute and i want it to stay
that
way but I will have "creator owner" full control on some particular
folders
so that users may save to.

Is this a bug?..sorry i meant to say "by design".

Thanks


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Dave Runda wrote:

> Can someone please explain to me about the "Creator Owner"
> Permission (XP).
>
> When you select, for example, "full control" for the "creator owner"
> permission and apply it on a folder, as soon as you open the
> security properties on the folder the "creator owner" permission
> checkboxes are clear again. So anyway I checked the "permissions" tab
> through the "advanced" button and I found out that the permissions
> were in fact "Full control" but when I looked at the "Effective
> permissions" for the "creator Owner" there were none applied.

If you check the default Creator Owner permissions you will note that
they are "special" because they are applied to a different set of
objects than the standard permissions. Those permissions are not shown
on the first tab, you have to go to Advanced.

Creator Owner permissions are designed to be applied to new objects
created in the folder where those permissions are defined. Standard
permissions apply to the object on which they are defined and child
objects if inheritance is enabled.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security